It wasn’t an easy birth. The private companies opposed it. It took the vision of one man to bring BC Hydro into existence in1961. Before that, a patchwork of power companies supplied the province. 543 more words

British Columbia may have surplus renewable power to sell to Alberta, but Premier Rachel Notley said Friday her government won’t be buying it unless it can get an oil pipeline built to the coast. 823 more words

March 2, 1999: As night fell on a quiet East Vancouver street, BCTV (later to become Global News) reporter John Daly was in a van with cameraman Karl Casselman, eating pizza, staring at a nearby car — and wondering whether he was sitting on the biggest scoop of his life, or just pissing off his girlfriend. 3,160 more words